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title: "Ara żółtolica"
description: "Orthopsittaca manilatus — Ptaki. The red-bellied macaw (Orthopsittaca manilatus), also known as Guacamaya manilata, is a medium-sized, mostly green parrot, a member of a group of large Neotropical parrots known as macaws."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/red-bellied-macaw
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Ara żółtolica

> Orthopsittaca manilatus — Ptaki. The red-bellied macaw (Orthopsittaca manilatus), also known as Guacamaya manilata, is a medium-sized, mostly green parrot, a member of a group of large Neotropical parrots known as macaws.

- Scientific name: *Orthopsittaca manilatus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `jungle` (Dżungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1298
- Wikidata: [Q177191](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177191)
- iNaturalist taxon: [367563](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/367563)

## Names

- en: Red-bellied Macaw
- de: Rotbauchara
- es: Guacamayo de Vientre Rojo
- fr: Ara macavouanne
- it: Orthopsittaca manilata
- nl: Roodbuikara
- pt: Maracanã-de-cara-amarela
- pl: Ara żółtolica

## Countries with the most observations

BR (496), PE (228), EC (169), CO (120), GF (38), BO (35), SR (30), TT (29), GY (20), VE (9)

## Summary

The red-bellied macaw (Orthopsittaca manilatus), also known as Guacamaya manilata, is a medium-sized, mostly green parrot, a member of a group of large Neotropical parrots known as macaws. It is the largest of what are commonly called "mini-macaws". The belly has a large maroon patch which gives the species its name.
It is endemic to tropical Amazonian South America (as well as the Caribbean island of Trinidad), from Colombia south to Amazonian Peru and Bolivia, and central Brazil as far as the northwestern cerrado. Its habitat is moriche (or buriti) palm (Mauritia flexuosa) swamp forests and sandy savannahs with…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bellied_macaw

## Photo

![Ara żółtolica](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-bellied-macaw/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/346235849

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-bellied-macaw?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).